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Heidi Shierholz

Heidi Shierholz leads the Economic Policy Institutes’ Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages, a policy response team that tracks the Trump administration’s wage and employment policies. She also heads EPI’s efforts to advance a worker-centered policy agenda.

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Activists in the restaurant and service industries gather for Raise the Wage Act rally on the National Mall March 8, 2021 in Washington, DC. Activists called on Congress "to pass the Raise the Wage Act in its entirety, however it must be done." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

We Don't Have a Labor Shortage in the US, We Have a Crisis of Low Wages

Don't easily believe claims that there's a lack of people to fill jobs. What’s really going on is that employers aren't offering workers a living wage.

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Tyonna Stinnie working toward her certification at SED Child Development Center training for potential child care workers on August 3, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Mother's Day Is a Good Time to Acknowledge That Care Work Powers Our Economy

Care isn't a burden for women and families to shoulder alone. It's the foundation of our economy, and it deserves to be treated as such.

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Reinstating and extending pandemic UI provisions would create or save more than five million jobs. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Unless Congress Acts, Millions of Americans Will Soon Be Left With No Safety Net

To get the economy back on track in a reasonable timeframe, we need policymakers to pass roughly $3 trillion in fiscal support now, with the first $2 trillion hitting the economy between now and mid-2022.

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Senate Republicans are failing struggling families. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Millions Will Lose Unemployment Benefits in December Unless GOP Senators Act

Unemployment claims rise for second week in a row.

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Senate Republicans are failing struggling families. (Photo: Getty Images)

Not Just Cruel, GOP Blocking Unemployment Aid Is Terrible Economics

With unemployment benefits for millions of workers set to expire in December, Senate Republicans must stop blocking aid.

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This is a preventable disaster for the workers of this country. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Thanks to Mitch McConnell, 30 Million Workers Head Into Election Day Unnecessarily Hurting

It is both cruel and terrible economics that Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate last Tuesday with no COVID relief.

Heidi Shierholz ·

Workers in this pandemic aren’t just losing their jobs—an estimated 12 million workers and their family members have lost employer-provided health insurance due to COVID-19. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Let's Be Very Clear: Senate Republicans Have Failed Every Struggling American Family

It is cruel, and bad economics, to withhold stimulus aid.

Heidi Shierholz ·

Due to the impact of historic and current systemic racism, Black and Latinx communities have seen more job loss in this recession and have less wealth to fall back on. (Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

With Millions of People Out of Work, the Senate’s Inaction Is Not Only Cruel, It’s Bad Economics

When these programs expire, millions of these workers and their families will be financially devastated.

Heidi Shierholz ·

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